Regularity properties of the minimum-time map

  • Gianna Stefani
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Part of the Progress in Systems and Control Theory book series (PSCT, volume 9)

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to give a survey on some known results concerning the regularity properties of the minimum-time map around an equilibrium point of a control system and to discuss the links of these properties with the viscosity solutions of the Hamilton Jacobi Gellman equation. For sake of simplicity let us consider a control system on R n defined by:
$$(\sum )\dot X = f(X,u) \equiv {f_0}(X) + \sum\limits_{i = 1}^m {{u_i}} {f_i}(X),X(0) = {X_0}$$
where the fi’s are C∞ vector fields and the control map u = (u1,...,um) belongs to the class u of the integrable maps with values in the set
$$\Omega = \left\{ {({\omega _1}, \ldots ,{\omega _m}) \in {R^m}:\left| {{\omega _i}} \right| \leqslant 1,i = 1, \cdots ,m} \right\}.$$

Keywords

Local Controllability Viscosity Solution Regularity Property Nonlinear Control System Grade Vector Space 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Gianna Stefani
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  1. 1.Dipartimento di Matematica e ApplicazioniNapoliItalia

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